different between vicus vs viscus

English

Etymology

From Latin v?cus (“village”). Doublet of wick.

Noun

vicus (plural vici)

1. (historical) A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.
   • 2011, Brenda Longfellow, Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage

     The compital shrines stood at primary crossroads in the vici and received sacrifices during the annual Compitalia Festival.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weikos, from Proto-Indo-European *wey?- (“village”). Cognate of Ancient Greek ????? (oîkos, “house”), Sanskrit ???? (ví?, “settlement, dwelling-space”) and Gothic ???????????????????? (weihs, “village, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.kus/, [?u?i?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.kus/, [?vi?kus]

Noun

v?cus m (genitive v?c?); second declension

1. street; quarter, neighbourhood; row of houses
2. village; hamlet
3. municipal section or ward, farm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: vicus, vicinal, vicinity
• ? Breton: gwig
• Catalan: Vic
• ? Cornish: gwig
• Galician: Vigo
• Italian: vico
• Portuguese: vico
• Romansch: vitg
• Spanish: vigo, vico
• ? Welsh: gwig
• ? Germanic: *w?k? (see there for further descendants)

References

• v?cus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• v?cus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,673/3”
• vicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “u?cus” on page 2,058 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “vicus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 1,097–1,100

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin viscus (“any internal organ of the body”), perhaps akin to English viscid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?sk?s/
• Homophone: viscous
• Rhymes: -?sk?s

Noun

viscus (plural viscera)

1. (anatomy) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
2. (anatomy, specifically) The intestines.

Synonyms

• entrails
• innards
• intestines
• offal

Derived terms

• eviscerate
• visceral

Translations

See also

• viscus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• viscous

References

• viscus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• viscus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• viscus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Of unclear origin; possibly Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to turn, rotate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?is.kus/, [?u??s?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vis.kus/, [?viskus]

Noun

viscus n (genitive visceris); third declension

1. Any internal organ of the body.
2. (anatomy) entrails, viscera

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• viscer?lis

Related terms

• viscum

Descendants

• ? English: viscera
• ? French: viscères
• Portuguese: víscera

References

Further reading

• viscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN